<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 9:52 AM, John Curran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jcurran@arin.net" target="_blank">jcurran@arin.net</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>My recollection of history is that SWIPs originated for the purpose of reporting utilization to </div>
<div>support subsequent allocations, </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>More to the point, the purpose was to *be seen* reporting utilization that supported subsequent allocations so that accusations of cheating wouldn't fly back and forth. That's why SWIP is public instead of something only ARIN staff can see.<br><br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div>Bill Herrin<br><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>but the resulting entries in the public Whois have proved to </div>
<div>be important to law enforcement, network researcher and anti-abuse efforts. </div></div></blockquote><br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">William Herrin ................ <a href="mailto:herrin@dirtside.com" target="_blank">herrin@dirtside.com</a>  <a href="mailto:bill@herrin.us" target="_blank">bill@herrin.us</a><br>Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <<a href="http://www.dirtside.com/" target="_blank">http://www.dirtside.com/</a>></div>
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